혁신 어워즈
2023년 10월 26-27일 | 대한민국 수원
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아시아 태평양 주거포럼에서 가장 기다려온 구성 요소 중 하나인 혁신상은 개인, 조직 및 기관이 지역사회가 직면한 주거 문제를 해결하는 데 있어 창의성과 문제 해결의 한계를 넓힐 수 있도록 영감을 주고 권한을 부여하는 것을 목표로 합니다.
혁신에 중점을 둔 본 어워즈는 지역사회가 집이라고 부르는 장소를 개선하는 방식에 변화를 가져온 뛰어난 이니셔티브, 프로그램 및 솔루션을 대상으로 수여됩니다.
The Innovation Awards finalists are here!
Over 3,100 applications. Countless inspiring and impactful solutions.
6 finalists (plus honorable mentions)!
Here are the finalists for the 2023 Asia-Pacific Housing Forum Innovation Awards, and their outstanding initiatives, programs and solutions that are making a difference in the way communities improve the places they call home.
Finalists – Policy: Public Sector Housing Solutions

The Manila Housing Program encompasses housing, disaster resilience, climate adaptation, and social integration, by emphasizing mixed-income communities with amenities, preventing poverty concentration, and ensuring sustainability. It engages residents as active partners, valuing their input, and making them co-creators in addressing their housing needs, ensuring that the solutions developed are genuinely responsive to their unique circumstances and aspirations.
Affordable Housing Program for Low Income Households with Non-Fixed Income City
- Indonesia

Livable and affordable housing for low-income households is one of the priority programs of the “Program Sejuta Rumah” – One Million Houses, by the Indonesian Government. It provides housing finance assistance to low-income households especially for those in informal markets, through Mortgage Linked Down Payment Assistance, known as “BP2BT.” This initiative provides access and opportunities for informal low-income households for home ownership, self-construction and self-improvement. It mobilizes banking capital towards improved housing construction quality, reducing the burden of government subsidized housing finance.
Honorable mentions:
Finalists – Program: Civil Society Housing Impact

The Housing & Living Conditions Improvement (HaLI) project seeks to improve the livelihoods of residents of urban-poor settlements in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Supported the Agence francaise de Développement (AFD) and Fondation Abbé Pierre (FAP), the project focuses on housing renovation & Infrastructure upgrading, community mobilization & empowerment, psycho-social support & counseling, economic empowerment, and research-action. It intervenes on different scales through an holistic approach in order to improve the living and housing conditions and advocate towards slum’s upgrading solutions rather than relocations or evictions.

The program started in 2016, following the eviction of Kampung Akuarium settlement residents. Through advocacy, organizing and other tactics, its residents, together with the Rujak Center for Urban Studies, the Jakarta City Poor People’s Network and the Urban Poor Consortium succeeded in pushing for the redevelopment the settlement. The redevelopment, completed in April 2023, uses co-design principles with designs that suit the needs of residents and adopt the unique economic activities.
Honorable mentions:
Sustainable Enterprise Project (SEP): Promotion of environment friendly construction materials and technologies in coastal region of Bangladesh
- Bangladesh
Building Houses Using Cost Effective Technologies for the Poor
- India
Finalists – Sheltertech: Private Sector Technology
Bandhu is an AI-driven tech platform that connects India’s blue-collar workers to jobs and affordable housing. It securitizes workers’ rental housing cash flows to unlock rental deposit loans and home improvement loans for low-income tenants and landlords, ultimately making the rural-to-urban migration process more equitable for 300 million Indians.

WeavAir provides a novel decision support platform that increases the resilience and affordability of housing, balancing environmental impact, social impact and investment financial return. By combining networks of sensors, satellite imagery and drone data capture systems as well as AI-powered software, the company supports real-time monitoring of the evolution of climate risks and ESG risks, reducing the cost and time required to make accurate housing development and resilience decisions by at least 10-fold. This allows for creating a digital twin of an asset and accurate assessment & prediction of the financial and ESG impact of housing development projects.
Honorable mentions:
What’s new
A special award on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), supported by EU
SWITCH-Asia, will recognize one of the award’s finalists that integrates sustainability considerations in
an exemplary way.
SCP emphasizes the provision of products and services and enabling of lifestyles
that minimize environmental impacts while maximizing social and economic benefits. These include
resource efficiency and building circularity, emissions reduction / energy solutions, and creating
climate resilient, sustainable cities.
어워즈 분류

정책: 공공 부문 주거 솔루션
This award acknowledges transformative policies within the public sector that drive advancements in housing affordability and sustainability. It recognizes innovative proposals by various actors, including government agencies, non-governmental organizations, research institutions, and other stakeholders. It encourages the development and sharing of impactful policies that improve housing conditions and create sustainable communities.

프로그램: 시민사회 주거 영향
본 어워즈는 적정 가격의 주거 솔루션에 대한 시민 사회 이니셔티브의 영향력 있는 기여를 인정합니다. 적정 가격의 주택 부문의 긍정적인 변화를 주도하는 시민사회 단체가 주도하는 혁신적인 프로그램과 프로젝트에 수여됩니다. 이 부문은 지역사회를 동원하고, 주거권을 옹호하며, 주거 환경을 개선하고 취약 계층에 힘을 실어주기 위한 풀뿌리 이니셔티브를 실행하는 데 있어 시민 사회의 중요한 역할을 강조합니다.

쉘터테크: 민간 부문 기술
이 카테고리는 주택 부족 문제를 해결하고 저소득 가구의 생활 여건을 개선할 수 있는 확대 가능성이 있고 지속 가능하며 포용적인 기술 개발에 중점을 둡니다. 스타트업, 확대 기관 및 기업이 개발한 혁신적인 솔루션을 선보입니다.
모든 신청서는 다음 필수 카테고리 기준에 부합해야 합니다:
중요한 날짜
Applications are open until August 20, 2023
Finalists to be announced on September 11, 2023
이노베이션 어워드는 2023년 10월 26일과 27일에 개최됩니다.